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Thanks. More or else confirms what I suspected. Daly's kindness, humor and integrity have gone a long way towards shoring up her status - both on and off stage. Worth considering, too, is that you can admire someone's work and still see her as a tad overrated. As I see it, Daly is a formidable actress, but an iffy singer. I wouldn't put Daly's body of work on the same scale as, say, Angela Lansbury's. (Not yet.) Anyhoo, I remain a fan, but it's an interesting debate.

I'm no insider, so can someone knowledgeable discuss what amounts to the reverence for Tyne Daly within the Broadway community? Don't misunderstand me, I've always liked her and think she's a fine actress, if a bit mannered at times. It's just that the adoration of her has always seemed (to me) to be slightly over the top. Here's my theory: she seems to be very popular personally - decent, giving and generous, especially with younger actors - that that contributes to the outsized critical est...

The reviews were mixed to tepid from the critics that matter. (Go back and read them.) FishermanBob has it right, as numbers don't lie. When you can't break 50 per cent capacity for most of your run, that's a flop by any objective standard.

Sad for the company, but it seems the critical consensus was that it wasn't a very good play. That's what likely doomed it. You also have to wonder if the producers held out this long because they didn't want to hurt or offend Daly. Is that naive or does that kind of compassion ever overrule common sense on Broadway?

Is "Mothers and Sons" in danger of closing? How has it lasted this long after such mediocre reviews and playing to so many empty seats?